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08 May 2024
Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints
By Caroline DonnellyA Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups
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08 May 2024
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
By Alex ScroxtonAn IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause
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08 May 2024
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
By Antony AdsheadChinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year
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31 Jul 2023
SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play
By Aaron TanSUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code
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31 Jul 2023
Splunk .conf23: The dangers of party planning as a woman in tech
By Clare McDonaldWhy should women in tech seek mentors, mentees and male allies – and avoid party planning? Some of the women at Splunk and its customers explained at .conf23
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31 Jul 2023
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
By Caroline DonnellyGovernment procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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28 Jul 2023
Lancaster Uni lends cyber support to nuclear decommissioning body
By Alex ScroxtonLancaster University’s cyber team has joined with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help support and protect its 300-year mission, while enhancing its own capabilities in the process
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28 Jul 2023
Risks of opening up AI
By Cliff SaranMeta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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28 Jul 2023
Citrix hands partners options to meet customer demands
By Simon QuickeFirm rolls out single subscription covering several services that will make life easier for the channel and users
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28 Jul 2023
Scottish university hit by Rhysida ransomware gang
By Alex ScroxtonData allegedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland has been put up for sale on the dark web by a ransomware gang going by the name Rhysida
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28 Jul 2023
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
By Brian McKennaServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships
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28 Jul 2023
How Indian organisations are keeping pace with cyber security
By Pratima HarigunaniIndian organisations are shoring up their defences to improve their cyber resilience amid intensifying cyber threats targeted at key sectors such as healthcare and logistics
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27 Jul 2023
Security a concern for MSPs
By Simon QuickeManaged service providers are a target of cyber criminals so taking steps to protect data is a major ambition
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27 Jul 2023
European Commission starts investigation into Microsoft Teams bundling
By Cliff SaranThe commission will investigate if the bundling of Microsoft’s collaboration software with its office productivity suite breaks competition rules
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27 Jul 2023
HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers
By Caroline DonnellyThe government tax collection agency has once again been forced to deny it has banned the use of outside IR35 contractors following the publication of its latest set of accounts
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27 Jul 2023
Cyber criminals pivot away from ransomware encryption
By Alex ScroxtonCyber breaches that saw data theft and extortion without an encryption or ransomware component account for more and more incidents, in a possible indication that ransomware gangs are changing up their business models
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27 Jul 2023
Daisy: Customers keeping a continuing eye on costs
By Simon QuickeComms player shares research that underlines the ongoing impact the economic landscape is having on customer behaviour
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27 Jul 2023
US cyber breach reporting rules to have global impact
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations that operate as Foreign Private Issuers in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations handed down by the SEC in Washington
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27 Jul 2023
Post Office tried to convince independent IT witness that he was wrong about Horizon
By Karl Flinders‘Delusional’ Post Office tried to influence an expert witness and get him to change his view about IT evidence which was detrimental to its case against a subpostmaster
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27 Jul 2023
Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy
By Cliff SaranThe owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs
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27 Jul 2023
Ant Group teams with NTU to advance privacy-preserving technologies
By Aaron TanThe Chinese fintech giant is partnering with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on a cryptographic protocol that ensures the privacy of transacting parties
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26 Jul 2023
U.S. senators sharpen focus on AI regulations
By Makenzie HollandLicensing AI systems, creating a federal AI agency, and establishing third-party testing and auditing regimes are just some of the AI regulation ideas U.S. senators are pursuing.
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26 Jul 2023
Zyxel bolsters MSP support
By Simon QuickeFirm wants more partners to take the managed services approach, while elsewhere, Kyndryl ramps up its options in the security space
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26 Jul 2023
Babble buys again with more lined up for second half
By Simon QuickeChannel player seals three deals and indicates there is plenty more in the pipeline as it continues to expand the business
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26 Jul 2023
Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts
By Alex ScroxtonAmbulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system
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26 Jul 2023
Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy
By Aaron TanCloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas
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26 Jul 2023
UK organisations lack confidence to carry out basic cyber tasks
By Alex ScroxtonAmid a shortfall of more than 10,000 cyber pros, UK businesses are still finding it difficult to fill their cyber security skills gaps, with even those in charge of security saying they lack confidence in themselves
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26 Jul 2023
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue
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25 Jul 2023
EU CSRD could raise bar on quality of ESG data
By Makenzie HollandThe European Union's new ESG reporting framework looks beyond environmental data across social and corporate governance metrics, according to one analyst.
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25 Jul 2023
Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition
By Alex ScroxtonNetwork Resilience Coalition focuses on bringing together global expertise to improve data and network security
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25 Jul 2023
CCRC refers two more subpostmaster convictions for appeal
By Karl FlindersTwo more subpostmaster convictions referred to appeal court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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25 Jul 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation
By Cliff SaranWith its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration
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25 Jul 2023
Tetra radio users’ comms may have been exposed for years
By Alex ScroxtonA number of flaws in the encryption algorithms used in the secure Tetra radio communications standard have potentially left users exposed to snooping
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25 Jul 2023
Mayor of London announces startup funding
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonSeven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable
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24 Jul 2023
CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia
By Karl FlindersIn his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the time to study one of his passions
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24 Jul 2023
CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity
By Yann SerraDeveloped out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity
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24 Jul 2023
Citrix NetScaler users told to patch new zero-day urgently
By Alex ScroxtonA vulnerability disclosed and patched last week by Citrix appears to be being exploited by China-backed threat actors as a zero-day, prompting warnings from government cyber bodies
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24 Jul 2023
Tribunal investigates complaint that journalists’ phones were unlawfully monitored
By Bill GoodwinThe Investigatory Powers Tribunal has agreed to investigate complaints by Northern Ireland investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey that they were unlawfully placed under surveillance
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24 Jul 2023
Bank of England’s project to replace ‘beating heart’ is foundation for continuous development
By Karl FlindersThe Bank of England has reached a major milestone in its core system replacement programme, with next landmark in sight
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24 Jul 2023
Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations that go all in on security AI and automation tend to incur lower financial costs when they experience a data breach incident, according to an IBM report
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24 Jul 2023
Why cyber security should be part of your ESG strategy
By Aaron TanThe impact of data breaches and cyber threats on businesses, societies and the environment makes cyber security a key consideration in an environment, social and governance strategy
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23 Jul 2023
SoftwareOne turns down Bain and starts strategic review
By Simon QuickeSecond bid rejected but offers have promoted board to seriously assess future of the business
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21 Jul 2023
Lack of agreement on AI rules in U.S., EU gives China a leg up
By Makenzie HollandWhile the EU and China have proposed AI rules, the U.S. is continuing a hands-off regulatory approach, which could affect its role in helping set the rules of the AI road.
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21 Jul 2023
Bain makes second offer for SoftwareOne
By Simon QuickeCloud and software specialist will have to consider a higher bid for the business after turning down last month’s opening offer
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21 Jul 2023
Managed services players expose hybrid working challenges
By Simon QuickeResearch from a couple of MSPs indicates that in the financial services sector and the NHS, the technology to support remote working is not meeting employee needs
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21 Jul 2023
Almost 60% of people seeking a new role are doing so for cash
By Clare McDonaldThere are many reasons someone may choose to seek a new role or job at another company, but this year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey found that a majority do so for a higher salary
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21 Jul 2023
SAP’s Klein sees $1tn market for AI business software
By Cliff SaranEnterprise software company embeds AI across product portfolio to improve efficiency in business processes
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21 Jul 2023
Government boosts protection for encryption in Online Safety Bill but civil society groups concerned
By Bill GoodwinHouse of Lords adopts amendment to require Ofcom to commission a report before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages, but drops proposals for judicial oversight
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20 Jul 2023
More ASEAN IT pros staying in their jobs
By Aaron TanGlobal economic uncertainty and staff retention efforts by employers are keeping the region’s IT professionals longer in their jobs
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20 Jul 2023
Dell Moogsoft AIOps buy could start filling gaps post-VMware
By Beth PariseauDell's purchase of Moogsoft this week could help it regain some enterprise software appeal it lost when it spun out VMware. But the future is unclear for Moogsoft users.
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20 Jul 2023
U.S. walks line between diplomacy, security with China
By Makenzie HollandAmid talks of further export controls placed on China, administration officials reiterated President Biden's desire for communication and building U.S.-China relations.
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20 Jul 2023
Electronic Trade Documents Act receives royal assent
By Alex ScroxtonDigital trade documents are to be accorded the same status in law as paper ones under a law implemented to help reduce paper waste and speed up the UK’s foreign trade
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20 Jul 2023
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
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20 Jul 2023
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, DWP
By Lis EvenstadOnly 13 weeks into his new role, the Department for Work and Pensions’ CDIO speaks to Computer Weekly about plans for artificial intelligence, data modernisation and how to complete a business plan in record time
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20 Jul 2023
Renowned hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick dead at 59
By Alex ScroxtonFamed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 from complications arising from pancreatic cancer, following a 14-month illness
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20 Jul 2023
How the DSMA balances security and privacy with press freedom
By Peter Ray AllisonIn a world of information sharing and 24-hour news cycles, the Defence and Security Media Advisory committee have to balance national security and data privacy with freedom of the press
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20 Jul 2023
BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services
By Karl FlindersTCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer
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20 Jul 2023
Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous
By Alex ScroxtonThe KillNet DDoS gang seems to be becoming more dangerous, but its primary goal remains to create a lot of noise and draw media attention, according to latest analysis
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20 Jul 2023
AI and data experts to be brought into government through secondment programme
By Karl FlindersThe government has announced plans for a secondment programme designed to bring digital experts into government departments
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19 Jul 2023
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
By Aaron TanIaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner
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19 Jul 2023
Tensions rise with EU over Digital Markets Act, tech policies
By Makenzie HollandCongress members want the Biden administration to confront the EU about technology policies targeting U.S. businesses.
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19 Jul 2023
Chainguard automates SBOMs, but has Images-based agenda
By Beth PariseauContainer images, that is. Chainguard Enforce now automates SBOMs, but execs and an early customer say they aren't the ultimate answer to software supply chain security.
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19 Jul 2023
BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
By Alex ScroxtonCosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder is experiencing operational disruption in the wake of a cyber attack that seems to involve two different cyber crime gangs
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19 Jul 2023
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
By Cliff SaranThe $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate
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19 Jul 2023
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
By Joe O’HalloranConsortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft increases channel exposure to AI
By Simon QuickeVendor rolls out fresh specialisation encouraging the channel to embrace the benefits artificial intelligence can deliver
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence
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19 Jul 2023
‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute
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19 Jul 2023
Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims
By Alex ScroxtonApproximately 55% of security professionals say they have engaged in behaviours they would more usually advise against in the workplace, according to a report
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19 Jul 2023
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
By Alex ScroxtonA newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn
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19 Jul 2023
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
By Cliff SaranThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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18 Jul 2023
Splunk AI update adds specialized models for SecOps tasks
By Beth PariseauSplunk AI updates this week included specialized models for SecOps that detect and automatically respond to common issues such as DNS exfiltration and suspicious processes.
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18 Jul 2023
NATO membership to drive Nordic cyber security sector growth
By Gerard O'DwyerThe Nordic cyber security sector will see increasing demand as Finland and Sweden joint NATO
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18 Jul 2023
Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks
By Alex ScroxtonTwo vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed
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18 Jul 2023
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
By Karl FlindersOverall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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17 Jul 2023
Businesses caught in the crosshairs amid U.S., China tensions
By Makenzie HollandAs the U.S. and China continue to target each other with restrictive export controls, businesses are caught in the middle of an increasingly tense conflict.
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17 Jul 2023
Arrow Electronics rolls out managed service offering
By Simon QuickeDistributor aims to help resellers plug gaps in their portfolios with a wide range of services
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17 Jul 2023
Subpostmaster compensation deadline will be missed, warns public inquiry chair
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters that successfully sued the Post Office and exposed the Horizon scandal are at the ‘back of the queue’ and won’t receive compensation by current deadline
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17 Jul 2023
Home Office failures on £2bn ESN project see “significant” costs to emergency services
By Joe O’HalloranPublic Accounts Committee slams government for appearance of complacency in its confidence over much delayed, over-budget emergency services network and calls for revised delivery plan
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17 Jul 2023
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach and the overall legality of using hyperscale public cloud technologies in a policing context
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17 Jul 2023
Shift towards ‘smarter’ digital life as broadband security, sustainability become key needs
By Joe O’HalloranCisco survey finds consumer expectations will reshape the needs and economics of the internet
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17 Jul 2023
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
By Aaron TanZoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market
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14 Jul 2023
UK performs for Proact in Q2
By Simon QuickeChannel player shared its H1 update, indicating its performance on this side of the North Sea has been a good one
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14 Jul 2023
Fast-moving BT driving UK fibre deployment
By Joe O’HalloranAnalysis by leading financial ratings firm shows how UK fibre landscape has changed, emphasising how BT is driving pace of deployment while altnets are still deploying despite higher interest rates and inflation
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14 Jul 2023
Horizon inquiry chief threatens Post Office with 'criminal sanctions' over disclosure failures
By Bryan GlickSir Wyn Williams forced to act after repeated failures by Post Office to disclose evidence to the inquiry examining the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history
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14 Jul 2023
UK aviation regulators cleared on Virgin Orbit satellite failure
By Joe O’HalloranUK government committee clears regulation as contributing factor to UK satellite launch failure, but slams UK government for lack of action on vital component of space programme
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14 Jul 2023
UCLH uses machine learning to cope with emergency beds demand
By Lis EvenstadUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a machine learning tool which uses real-time data to predict how many emergency beds will be needed
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13 Jul 2023
Storage, server prices drop as inflation eases
By John MooreServer and storage prices declined in June, reflecting cooling inflation, but companies remain intent on containing costs and optimization.
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13 Jul 2023
Ofcom opens investigation into Virgin Media contract cancellation
By Joe O’HalloranAs Ofcom publishes cost-of-living action plan update on range of work to support hard-pressed households, UK watchdog to probe operator’s contract termination and complaints handling
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13 Jul 2023
Civil society groups call on EU to put human rights at centre of AI Act
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of civil society groups are calling on EU institutions to prioritise people and human rights in AI legislation as secretive negotiations begin
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13 Jul 2023
Microsoft issues new warning over Chinese cyber espionage
By Alex ScroxtonA newly uncovered Chinese espionage campaign exploited forged authentication tokens to access its victims’ email accounts, says Microsoft
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13 Jul 2023
One month after MOVEit: New vulnerabilities found as more victims are named
By Alex ScroxtonFive weeks after the mass MOVEit breach, new vulnerabilities in the file transfer tool are coming to light as the Clop cyber crime group continues to terrorise victims. But has the gang bitten off more than it can chew?
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13 Jul 2023
MPs launch inquiry into government use of data
By Lis EvenstadThe Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee is to investigate the possibility of reforming the way government collects and analyses data, and whether the UK census could be scrapped
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13 Jul 2023
BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three and Virgin Media commit to curbing telco supply chain GHG emissions
By Caroline DonnellyTwelve telcos and network infrastructure providers have vowed to join forces to help cut the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from their supply chains
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13 Jul 2023
Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon
By Aaron TanNutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments
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13 Jul 2023
CaixaBank adds hundreds more IT professionals to support digital transformation
By Karl FlindersCaixaBank is recruiting 200 more IT professionals in Spain to support its ongoing digital transformation
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12 Jul 2023
Commercial space industry opportunities set to take off
By Makenzie HollandAs NASA sets its sights on the next lunar landing and long-duration space flights, commercial companies are rising to meet the growing opportunities in outer space.
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12 Jul 2023
Digital public services ‘riddled’ with problems, says TUC
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in how new technologies are being developed, deployed and controlled
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12 Jul 2023
Forensic Institute provides Hansken viewing method for Dutch lawyers
By Kim LoohuisDutch lawyers can now view crypto communication in criminal cases from their own workplace via digital search engine Hansken. Previously, this had to be done at an external location
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12 Jul 2023
Couchbase: Digital transformation needs have changed
By Simon QuickeCouchbase signals the need for a tailored pitch, with customer priorities shifting over the past couple of years
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12 Jul 2023
Ofcom’s online safety preparedness efforts hobbled by government
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDespite Ofcom’s progress so far, UK government changes to the scope and timetable of the Online Safety Bill are hobbling the ability of the regulator to successfully prepare for the new regime
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12 Jul 2023
Bytes signals strong start to fiscal year
By Simon QuickeAhead of its AGM, the firm has provided an update on the first few months of its latest fiscal year, indicating that it is performing well
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12 Jul 2023
Cozy Bear lures victims with used BMW 5 Series
By Alex ScroxtonA recent Cozy Bear campaign saw the Russian APT group pivot to exploiting an advert for a used car as it targeted diplomatic missions in Kyiv